Chapter 17 Assessment

Assignment:  These are to be done IN YOUR OWN WORDS.  If you use Google, the book, or get help from a friend, put the answers in your own words in complete sentences [or paragraphs where applicable].

Lesson 1:

• 1. What was Hitler's master plan for creating an Aryan racial empire?
• 2. Why did world powers try to appease or ignore Germany’s and Japan’s expansionist policies at first?

Lesson 2:

• 3. What new tactic did Hitler use to conquer much of Europe early in the war?
• 4. How and where did the Allies turn the tide in the Asian theater of operations?

Lesson 3:

• 5. What effects did war have on civilians in the Soviet Union, the United States, Germany, and Japan?
• 6. What was the goal of bombing cities and was it successful?

Lesson 4:

• 7. What methods did the Nazis use in their genocide?
• 8. How did the slogan “Asia for the Asiatics” differ from the reality?

Lesson 5:

• 9. Could the Allies have beaten Germany without a "second front" in Europe?
• 10. What political tensions, suspicions, and conflict of ideologies led to the Cold War?